Hacker News: icpmoles

New comment by icpmoles in "Spanish legislation as a Git repo"

icpmoles — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 16:00:42 +0000

For older edits there is https://github.com/steeve/france.code-civil

Unfortunately Git is based on Unix timestamps so everything pre-1970 has the wrong date.

New comment by icpmoles in "Ultimate-Linux: Userspace for Linux in Pure JavaScript"

icpmoles — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 21:04:35 +0000

Slightly late according to other predictions

https://xkcd.com/1508/

New comment by icpmoles in "What Is (AI) Glaze?"

icpmoles — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 13:23:45 +0000

I couldn't find a link to the source code.

Are they still pushing the "security through obscurity"?

New comment by icpmoles in "Garfield's proof of the Pythagorean Theorem"

icpmoles — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 17:10:47 +0000

Peru's experience with a President with a math degree didn't go that well

New comment by icpmoles in "Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support"

icpmoles — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 14:20:59 +0000

DRM protection schemes usually don't rely on TPM, the real magic happens inside your GPU and the monitor.

New comment by icpmoles in "Offline Math: Converting LaTeX to SVG with MathJax"

icpmoles — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 18:13:40 +0000

It improved a little bit from what I remembered (on Chrome it had problems displaying multi-line brackets), it still has some inaccuracies tho

https://imgur.com/a/83lSuYn

New comment by icpmoles in "Offline Math: Converting LaTeX to SVG with MathJax"

icpmoles — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 16:12:33 +0000

In my experience the MathML support is still mediocre, especially on Chrome.

https://fred-wang.github.io/MathFonts/mozilla_mathml_test/

New comment by icpmoles in "Why Nigeria accepted GMOs"

icpmoles — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 06:53:32 +0000

When you buy hardware that goes rogue you're forced to throw it away and install something new, which costs money for hardware and labor.

When a GMO goes rogue you can just buy a different seed the next planting season, which you were going to do anyway.

New comment by icpmoles in "Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot"

icpmoles — Thu, 22 May 2025 17:40:24 +0000

The "Save to Pocket" button at the bottom is a nice touch.

New comment by icpmoles in "Security and privacy risks of public JavaScript CDNs"

icpmoles — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 11:04:46 +0000

Because of Cache Partitioning it's technically impossible to have a cache hit in your example.

New comment by icpmoles in "Two ways to use an LED as a light sensor with Arduino"

icpmoles — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 13:12:06 +0000

I remember the OG pebble using the backlight LEDs as ambient light sensors but I can't find where I read it.

New comment by icpmoles in "Ask HN: I've Built a DHT Torrent Sniffer and Search Engine. Should I Release?"

icpmoles — Sun, 23 Oct 2022 12:28:43 +0000

Is it basically btdig.com ?

New comment by icpmoles in "Samsung Electronics cultural issues causing disasters in foundry, LSI, DRAM"

icpmoles — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 07:38:46 +0000

I had the same problem with my Samsung fridge and while trying to fix it I stumbled upon the world of third party "samsung defroster clip" that you can find on online stores. Which suggests that the problem is so widespread to spin up a whole new industry for a 5 bucks piece of metal.

New comment by icpmoles in "PG&E will bury 10k miles of power lines so they don't spark wildfires"

icpmoles — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 20:48:47 +0000

For the high voltage lines Germany is pretty much still at less than 10%.

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Statistics-of-AC-Under...

New comment by icpmoles in "Google fined €100M by Italian antitrust over Google Play abuse of dominance"

icpmoles — Thu, 13 May 2021 08:09:57 +0000

Quick summary: the biggest electricity provider in the country (ENEL) made an app (Juicepass) to find and manage their charging stations across the country. The Android Auto functionality of the app has been rejected by Google for non disclosed "security concerns while driving". The antitrust ruled out it was because Google wanted to sabotage competitor apps to the charging stations finder built-in in the Google Maps app. On top of the fine Google will need to provide the SDK to integrate their app with Android Auto.

New comment by icpmoles in "U.S. Feds Seized Nearly $1B in Bitcoin from Wallet Linked to Silk Road"

icpmoles — Thu, 05 Nov 2020 19:22:31 +0000

That number too.

New comment by icpmoles in "It was more efficient to blow up a real 747 than to use miniatures or CGI"

icpmoles — Sat, 19 Sep 2020 09:42:00 +0000

To my surprise the airplane was pretty much unbroken from the outside.

https://www.jetphotos.com/photo/9719776

New comment by icpmoles in "AdGuard DNS: A Privacy-Oriented DNS Server"

icpmoles — Mon, 31 Dec 2018 09:30:40 +0000

If you use a VPN to connect to your own RaspberryPi yes